If presidents can establish a national monument under the Antiquities Act, they can also remove them, Justice Dept. says in a ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

Trump officials say presidents can abolish monuments created by predecessors, and California's newest ones — Chuckwalla and ...

The Justice Department issued a new opinion arguing President Trump can revoke national monument status, the latest step in a ...

The opinion comes as the Interior Department seeks to scale back the land of six national monuments to make more land ...

Opinion. This Sunday. June 8, 2025, marks the 119th anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906, a landmark conservation law ...

The legal opinion upends a 1938 document used by presidents of both parties. But it's still unclear if he'll tear up popular ...

President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the ...

President Donald Trump has the power to abolish two national monuments in California established by his Democratic ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

The new opinion states that presidents may remove or reduce protections for monuments that “never were or no longer are ...

Presidents have expanded and contracted national monuments, as the U.S. saw with Bears Ears National Monument in Utah over the course of the past three presidencies. The rules for the use and ...